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BILL ANALYSIS

 

 

 

C.S.H.B. 4075

By: Perez

County Affairs

Committee Report (Substituted)

 

 

 

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

 

Concerns have been raised that the periods for which taxes for a fire control, prevention, and emergency medical services district may be imposed do not align with predetermined election dates to reauthorize such a tax, which creates issues for municipal election scheduling. C.S.H.B.  4075 seeks to address this issue by revising the time for the dissolution of a district.

 

CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT

 

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.

 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

 

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.

 

ANALYSIS

 

C.S.H.B. 4075 amends the Local Government Code to postpone the date on which a fire control, prevention, and emergency medical services district is dissolved to the first uniform election date that occurs after the applicable time for dissolution of the district.  

 

EFFECTIVE DATE

 

September 1, 2019.

 

COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL AND SUBSTITUTE

 

While C.S.H.B. 4075 may differ from the original in minor or nonsubstantive ways, the following summarizes the substantial differences between the introduced and committee substitute versions of the bill.

 

The substitute does not include provisions doing the following:

·       removing provisions establishing that a fire control, prevention, and emergency medical services district is dissolved five years after the date a municipality began to impose taxes for district purposes if the district has not held a continuation or dissolution referendum and that a district is dissolved on the fifth anniversary of the date of the most recent continuation or dissolution referendum; and

·       establishing that a district is dissolved instead on expiration of the period for which the district was authorized to impose taxes for district purposes pursuant to the last successful creation or continuation election.

 

The substitute includes provisions postponing the date on which a fire control, prevention, and emergency medical services district is dissolved to the first uniform election date that occurs after the applicable time for dissolution of the district. 

 

The substitute changes the bill's effective date provision.